Tom Chandler is poet laureate of Rhode Island emeritus. He has been named Phi Beta Kappa Poet at Brown University and has been a featured poet at the Library of Congress and the Robert Frost homestead. His poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio on several occasions. He has written commissioned poems for The State of Rhode Island, The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, and Waterfire, and has twice been named inaugural poet for Providence mayoral inaugurations. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bryant University, and the founder and editor of the Bryant Literary Review. His latest book of new & selected poems is Guitars of the Stars.

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From the Visual Artist

"I'm new to making visual pieces. Although poems and visual art both involve making pictures, I find their processes use different brain lobes. Through passions alternately hot and cool, I like moving from writing poems to doing artwork and back again throughout the course of a day. Keeps me properly agitated ..."

Tom's OPP poetry page is here.

Some Origami micro-chapbook covers with Tom's artwork: